Compliance, Regulator Pressures Pile Up at HSBC
Recent scandals at banking giant HSBC have caused regulators to shift their attention to senior executives. According to news reports, Group Chairman Douglas Flint and Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver have come under scrutiny after journalists obtained “secret documents” stating that HSBC’s Swiss private banking arm failed to conduct sufficient due ...
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